Employability Keyworker

Motiv8 Employability Key Worker

Fixed term contract from 1st April 2025 - 31st March 2026.

Full time, 37 hours per week

Stockport Homes are currently recruiting for a Motiv8 Employability Key Worker. Motiv8 is a programme that supports those furthest from the labour market. Funded by the DWP since 2023, it provides personalised support to help people with complex needs move towards employment. It is led by Jigsaw Support and delivered in partnership with Skylight, Starts with you, Wythenshawe Community Housing Group, ForHousing, and Shelter.

As an Employability Keyworker, you will provide and co-ordinate tailored support packages to improve people’s health and wellbeing, self-confidence, and esteem, to understand their strengths and aspirations and advance their journey towards – and into – training, job search and employment.

You will involve relevant agencies within the partnership and wider community, matched to the participant’s needs, through a unique and flexible delivery approach.

You will be working with people aged 18 and over who have multiple complex needs. Presenting barriers could include entrenched worklessness, combined with living in a jobless household, debt, mental health issues, homelessness, history of offending, disabilities and other health issues including drug and alcohol addiction.

You will offer 1 to 1 support for a minimum of six months removing barriers for people to move forward and support them move into a positive destination of training, job search or employment. Delivery will be across the ten local authorities in Greater Manchester., predominantly in Stockport.

As a Motiv8 Employability Keyworker, you will be responsible for:

Managing and monitoring a caseload of participants, and mobilising action plans and outcomes.

Proactively engaging participants and sustaining their engagement through regular face to face support, telephone, and videocalls.

Developing and delivering one-to-one and group support interventions.

Carrying out risk and need assessments with participants, developing personalised SMART action plans reflective of their needs.

Providing a flexible and holistic package of support to continually reassess participants support needs, and maintaining a flexible approach to delivery.

Developing relationships with key partners and stakeholders from statutory and non-statutory services, including JCP, employment and training providers, to develop an up-to-date knowledge of services and to secure successful opportunities and outcomes for participants.

Must adopt a target driven approach to contribute towards the key performance indicators of the programme, especially achievement of training, employment and job searching outcomes, through motivational and outcome-focussed conversations with clients.

Recording and maintaining accurate, detailed, and professional case notes and client records via the ECCO case management system in a timely manner.

Operating and complying with organisation and contract policies and procedures, and the organisation’s values at all times.

To be a proactive member of the team; continually seeking to improve and develop your own skills and the performance of the team.

Attend mandatory training when requested to ensure compliance with group policies and procedures.

Carrying out any other duty which may be, from time to time, requested commensurate with the position.

Working flexibly across the 10 localities of Greater Manchester including co-locating at offices across the partnership.

In addition to the contents of this job description, employees are expected to undertake any and all other reasonable and related tasks allocated by the funder or delivery partner in relation to the role.

Our ideal candidate will have:

• Strong case recording and management skills
• Experience of managing a personal caseload of participants, whilst being the single point of contact, mentor and coach.
• Ability to recognise and appropriately act upon safeguarding concerns
• Ability to use a range of IT systems and experience of using case management systems
• Proven experience of working with people in a support, advice, employability, or housing setting
• Experience of providing one to one support to participants
• A working knowledge of careers advice and benefits to support customers
• The ability to build positive relationships with service users, as well as the ability to work with autonomy and working as part of a team
• Excellent communication skills
• A flexible approach to work from a number of locations across Greater Manchester

It is important to us that we have a diverse workforce, representative of the communities we work in. Equality, diversity and inclusion is important to us and we like to acknowledge that everyone is different. We’re always looking to improve diversity within our teams and across the group, so we would welcome any applications from any underrepresented groups.

This role will be on SKylight terms and conditions.  

The successful applicant's appointment will be subject to satisfactory basic clearance by the Disclosure and Barring Service.  

We understand that if you don't meet every requirement, you may be hesitant to apply but we still want to hear from you and encourage you to submit an application detailing your experiences, achievements, and the value you can bring to our team. 

If you require any reasonable adjustments to complete your application, please contact the People & OD Team on humanresources@stockporthomes.org.    

We encourage you to apply early! We may close the vacancy sooner if we find the right candidate.   

Closing date: 7th April 2025

Interview date: 14th April - 15th April 2025